Chapter 7: Basically Survival Training 3/4

As Meliodas looks over the condition of Melascula as he does every other day, he can't help but remember when he first found her.

Flashback (A year ago):

Meliodas did his usual routine in killing the behemoths around his home or for training purposes as he was determined to become more proficient with his hand-to hand combat as he was too focused on his skills as a swordsman as he can't just rely on Godsbane to handle all of his problems.

Before he could fly towards his house, deciding to use his enhanced senses in case if one of these beasts survived his daily slaughter. he begins to hear some sounds in the distance as he can't help but feel curious on what the sounds are. The sounds seem to be heard towards the southeast section of the forest around three miles away. Meliodas then suddenly begins to sprint towards the direction where the sounds are coming from. As he parkours through multiple trees at once, the sounds become louder the closer he gets as it sounds similar but different at the same time.

'Sounds like a fight to the death from the sounds coming from this area.' Thought Meliodas as he remembers the patterns since he's been in this forest for nearly fifty years as he stops as the sounds are now right in front of him as he then hides in a nearby bush as he uses his enhanced senses to analyze what the potential reason is for such weak creatures in his eyes to be fighting about.

What he sees causes his eyes to slightly widen for a split second as he sees a sixty foot giant white hooded snake-like creature with dark red stripes fighting against a giant minotaur-like demon as they both have severe wounds on each other's bodies. What caused such a expression in Meliodas was not the two creatures fighting to the death, but it is the small egg located a couple meters behind them as it had features that were oddly familiar to a certain character in his past life.

But before he could proceed to move out of his position, he watches the snake demon perform a action out of sheer desperation not caring if it dies as it pounces onto the minotaur as it then attempts to go for it's neck determined to rip it out. But before it could do so, the latter grabs onto one of it's fangs as it rips out causing the snake to roar in immense pain before getting tossed away by several meters landing right next to where Meliodas saw the egg which is most likely her unborn child.

"I want to put a stop to this, I may be tempted to kill both of them as they are both very vulnerable due to the amount of wounds on their bodies but even I am not that cruel to retort to cowardly tactics that are often disguised as a heroic act in the eyes of those who don't truly understand what it means to have honor." Mutters Meliodas as he will not interfere in this endeavor and as much as he wants to kill these two beasts, he would do so immediately if their bodies had no wounds as he continues to observe what the potential outcome might be.

'She needs to finish this on her own even if it costs her own life.' Thought Meliodas as he sneakily bypasses their vision and enters into another nearby bush as he takes a closer look as to get a better look on the final outcome of this confrontation as it is revealed that the snake-like demon is a female.

The minotaur can be seen having a sadistic expression on it's face as it slowly approaches the badly damaged snake demon who is already on the brink of death as she gives one last look to her egg before seeing Meliodas in the corner of her eye as she gives him a look that says' Take care of my child in my stead.'

As if Meliodas could understand what she is saying, he nods in respect as he watches the snake in a final act of will with all her might once again pounces onto the demon minotaur with the strength she has left. She then begins to wrap around it's body as she begins to constrict herself as tight as possible as she begins to suffocate the living hell out of it. With her remaining fang, she bites into it's shoulder injecting her poison but as a result, she in returns gets stabbed by the fang that was forcibly ripped out as she bleeds out as she watches her opponent suffer from the poison that was injected into it's body. It eventually dies as Meliodas slowly gets out of the bush as he slowly approaches her with unknown intentions.

When he arrives in front of her, he then begins to pat her head as she very weakly barely manages to open her eyes to see what his intentions are. "I'll ensure that I will care take of her, don't you worry about it, you can pass on knowing that your child will be safe in my hands. " Meliodas then pulls out Godsbane as he then puts her out of her misery as he then wills her soul out as it levitates above his right hand as he turns around as he walks toward where he can see the egg.

Once he comes close to the egg, he then moves the soul as it then gets absorbed into the egg. " I'll made sure that despite your death, you get to live on through your child." Mutters Meliodas as he then carefully grabs the egg as he then manifests his wings of darkness as he takes off into the air towards the direction to his home.

Present Time: Meliodas' House

Watching Melascula slowly absorb the miasma in a aquarium-like structure while surrounded by the unpleasant vapor that is presently contained within a dome, Meliodas assumes that she'll hatch in around a decades time. He then heads out of the room as he then goes into another one where stacks of notes can be seen as Meliodas heads towards a nearby shelve and grabs a journal as he then grabs a quill as he then finds a empty page and writes down a entry about how desperate the animal-like demons are becoming recently as if something was ordering them to kill him. If this is the case, then he'll gladly take the challenge if the one ordering them makes their presence known as this is what he believes will help him acquire the physical counterpart of Full Counter.

Only time will tell...